After the appetizer of Green Day and Muse, the highlight is the Californian band, after five years of absence
FIRENZE As in the last bar on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles they start at jammare furiouslyto improvise, to tell us that rock is back. Yes, after two years of absence, rock returned to Firenze Rocks, the most important festival of its kind in Italy. After the appetizer of the Green Day and gods Musethe main dish is i Red Hot Chili Peppers, after five years of absence. The 65 thousand people in Florence are truly heterogeneous, the kids who discovered the Californians on Spotify and the over forties who fell in love with it funkettone at the end of the 80s (representing the world champion Marco Materazzi in the first place, any die-hard fan).
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The jam starts and you understand that something changed from the previous performances of Red Hot in Italy: paraphrasing a generational novel of the nineties, John Frusciante returned to the group. That is the great guitarist who left in 2009. And everyone benefits from it. Starting from Anthony Kiedis, not always irresistible to the voice in the past, evidently reassured by his presence. Which starts off great with Can’t Stop from By The Way and soon after with Dani California’s beloved-mocked homeland. She also knows the tarantolato Flea on the bass that John thanks him several times, while Chad Smith says his a la battery. And we forgive the band that indulges perhaps a little too much, in the rest of the lineup, with ben five songs on seventeen from the last album Unlimited Love.
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But alchemy thanks to the return of the Prodigal Son John perfect. And when you return to the old register with Californication’s Otherside the audience in delirium. an irresistible crescendo towards the ending of Californication before and Give it The Way then, an epochal piece. Which preludes the final apotheosis of By the Way, even if some will be disappointed by the absence of the hymn of despair, “Under The Bridge”. But it doesn’t matter, curtain. Of the Red Hot cos bellicos perfect, at these latitudes, we had never seen them. Why John Frusciante returned to the group.
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June 18, 2022 (change June 18, 2022 | 23:25)
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